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Tractatus brevis et utilis, de erigendis figuris coeli, verificationibus, revolutionibus et directionibus

Tractatus brevis et utilis, de erigendis figuris coeli, verificationibus, revolutionibus et directionibus by GARCAEUS, Johannes

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Title
Tractatus brevis et utilis, de erigendis figuris coeli, verificationibus, revolutionibus et directionibus
Author
GARCAEUS, Johannes
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SAMMELBAND OF THREE TEXTS DOCUMENTING COPERNICAN INFLUENCE WITH TWO AUTOGRAPH DEDICATIONS TO WITTENBERG PROFESSOR JACOB MILICH, STUDENT OF ERASMUS AND TEACHER OF REINHOLD Wittenberg, G. Rhaus Erben, 1556. 8vo (16 x 10 cm), 104 ff. with two folding tables. Bound in rubricated vellum (music manuscript) with title on spine. Extensive annotations on front endpaper (religious), title page (with a dedication from Garcaeus to Jacob Milich), and on the first of several extra blanks bound in at end; scattered annotations and corrections. Strip of the lower margin of A2 replaced, not affecting the text. [BOUND WITH:] Tractatus brevis et utilis proponens methodum doctrinae eclipsium. Wittenberg, Joh. Crato, 1556. 80 ff., with a folding table of declinations not called for by Zinner. Extensive annotations on title page (with a dedication from Garcaeus to Milich), scattered annotations and corrections. [AND WITH:] REINHOLD, Erasmus. Themata, quae continent methodicam tractationem de Horizonte rational ac sensili deque mutatione horizontium et meridianorum. Wittenberg, Joseph Clug, 1541. 12 ff. Strip of the lower margin of B4 replaced, not affecting the text. Light foxing to second t.p., one quire toned, marginal waterstain to last few leaves. Otherwise excellent. Rare first edition of the Tractatus de erigendis figures coeli, documenting Copernican influence on 16th-century astronomical literature, with two ex dono dedications to the Wittenberg mathematician and physician Jacob Milich (see below), indicating that Milich, whose numerous collaborations with Melanchthon are already well-documented, was a here-to-fore unknown of the Wittenberg Circle, the informal group of Copernicans centered around Rheticus and Reinhold. The present work is essentially astrological, dealing chiefly with the casting of horoscopes. It thereby reflects, however, the mathematical rigor that 16th C astronomers applied to astrological prediction: Garcaeus insists upon an accurate astronomical basis for such predictions, citing Copernicus more than twenty times and drawing upon Copernicus's calculations to get celestial positions of the planets. The second Tractatus, an extremely rare astronomical text published the same year by another Wittenberg publisher, also includes references to Copernicus. Such references are clear evidence that only 13 years after the publication of De Revolutionibus, Copernicus was well-known and esteemed as a mathematician and astronomer, and his name was appearing frequently in print. Both works are dedicated by Garcaeus to Jacob Milich (1501-1559), the astronomer, physician, and professor of mathematics at Wittenberg from at least 1535, where he presided as Dean of Arts during a public "Oratio de dignitate astrologiae," written by himself or possibly Melanchthon. Milich evidently taught at the university from 1535 onward (placing him in Wittenberg during the first printing of De Revolutionibus in 1543), and "seems to have been such a close collaborator in Melanchthon's cause that even his contemporaries mistook Milich's commentary on the second book of [Pliny] . . . as a work by Melanchthon" (Kusukawa). Indeed, Garcaeus' respect for the physician's learning is such that, among the genitures of "learned men" printed in his Astrologiae methodus (Basel 1576), Milich's geniture is given prior to those of Copernicus, Camerarius, Erasmus and even Melanchthon himself-prior to every contemporary, in fact, but Reinhold, who authored the third work in the present volume. Among Milich's medical works, Thorndike also records orations on the lives of Galen and Avicenna, and anatomical and cardiac treatises printed among Melanchthon's Declamationes (1558). Milich is also the namesake of the lunar crater Milichius. Johannes Garcaeus (1530-1575) was a German astronomer, mathematician, meteorologist and astrologer who studied at Wittenberg. The works of Erasmus Reinhold, professor of Mathematics at Wittenberg, also promoted Copernicanism. This first edition (1541) of his short tract was reprinted several times, including as an addendum to Libellus Ioannis de Sacrobusco libellus de sphaera, Wittenberg, Crato, 1550. (With thanks to Prof. Owen Gingerich, for confirming that the work requires two tables.) OCLC lists three U.S. copies of Garcaeus, at Arizona, UCSD, and Illinois, all containing two folding tables; no copies of the second Tractatus brevis (Wittenberg, Joh. Crato, 1556); and one copy of Reinhold at Brown. * 1.) Garcaeus: Zinner 2147; VD16 G 462. 2.) Tractatus brevis (Wittenberg, Joh. Crato, 1556): Zinner 2148, 1784; not in VD16. 3.) Reinhold: Zinner 1784; VD16 R 970; Thorndike V pp. 386-390; Sachiko Kusukawa, The Transformation of Natural Philosophy (Cambridge, 2006), p. 136.
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Works by ALLESTREE Richard

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Works
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ALLESTREE Richard
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1687. (ALLESTREE, Richard). The Works of the Learned and Pious Author of the Whole Duty of Man… The Second Impression. Oxford: George Pawlett, 1687. Folio (10 by 15 inches), contemporary full dark brown paneled calf rebacked with original spine preserved, later red morocco spine label, raised bands, later pastedowns. $1850.Second folio edition of the works of Richard Allestree, including The Whole Duty of Man, with engraved frontispiece, an impressive folio volume.Richard Allestree was a canon of Christ Church and a Royalist who was persecuted during the Commonwealth. Allestree's biographer, Bishop Fell, wrote that ""few of his time had either a greater compass or a deeper insight into all parts of learning; the modern and learned languages, rhetoric, philosophy, mathematics, history, antiquity, moral and polemical divinity"" (DNB). ""Allestree's influence on the late 17th-century church may owe less to his preaching or his university lectures than to the series of moral and devotional works initiated by The Whole Duty of Man (1657). The Whole Duty of Man was intended to show 'the very meanest readers' how 'to behave themselves so in this world that they may be happy for ever in the next'. This best-selling manual's prescription of morality and effort was balanced by an emphasis on divine grace and devotional practice: the result was sober, orthodox, common-sense advice pitched at the level of ordinary Anglican parishioners… The Whole Duty was a publishing sensation, and Timothy Garthwait, the bookseller who had purchased it 'from the Author upon Valuable consideration', took steps to prevent pirate editions in London and Dublin… A total of six further works in this vein appeared as by the author of the Whole Duty between 1660 and 1678 and all were collected as a single folio, The Works of the Author of 'The Whole Duty of Man'… This series shows that Allestree was no prisoner of the ivory tower and that his Arminian theology was easily translated into a rigorous yet optimistic practical Christianity"" (ODNB). The collected works first published in 12mo in 1682; first published in folio by Bishop Fell at Oxford in 1684. Includes The Gentleman's Calling, The Ladies Calling, The Art of Contentment, Private Devotions, The Causes of Decay of Christian Piety, and others. Wing A1083. Interior with very occasional light dampstaining and a few dog-eared corners expertly repaired; contemporary calf boards remargined and repaired at edges. A very good copy of this impressive folio edition.
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William Blake Engraver: A Descriptive Catalogue... by Charles Ryskamp. With an Introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes by Exhibition Catalogue. (William Blake)

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William Blake Engraver: A Descriptive Catalogue... by Charles Ryskamp. With an Introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes
Author
Exhibition Catalogue. (William Blake)
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
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1969. Princeton: 1969. 8vo, 61pp, illus. Original marbled wrappers, slightly worn but good. § Only edition, an excellent account of Blake's engravings. Bentley, Blake Books, 700.

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